We should have the same desire expressed by Sir John A MacDonald to Queen
Victoria, the Mother of Confederation, "to live under the sovereignty
of Your Majesty and your family for ever."
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I really like Susan Boyle!! I don't have any of her albums but I'm very happy for her, that she's done so well. She's got an incredible voice and really deserves her success. I love rags to riches stories; who doesn't? And hers is very poignant.

'Speaking of which: Another marvelous rags to riches story is about Li Cunxin in both his book and the film by the same name, Mao's Last Dancer. It's a thrilling story about a peasant boy, who grew up in a tiny village in grinding poverty in a very close-knit family, who is chosen by Mao's officials to go to the Madame Mao Academy of the Arts in Bejing to become A BALLET DANCER!

After six years of hard work and excruciating discipline, he's chosen to go to America, to summer school with the Houston Ballet. I won't spoil the rest of the story, but it's a good one. Suffice it to say, that his life of grinding poverty is changed forever, but not before a lot of hair-raising adventures and some heartbreaks along the way.